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cond-mat1998
Optimizing Smith-Waterman alignments
Rolf Olsen, Terence Hwa, Michael Lassig
Mutual correlation between segments of DNA or protein sequences can be detected by Smith-Waterman local alignments. We present a statistical analysis of alignment of such sequences…
cond-mat1995★ 73 cited
Similarity-Detection and Localization
Terence Hwa, Michael Lassig
The detection of similarities between long DNA and protein sequences is studied using concepts of statistical physics. It is shown that mutual similarities can be detected by seque…
cond-mat1994★ 33 cited
Defect-Mediated Stability: An Effective Hydrodynamic Theory of Spatio-Temporal Chaos
Carson C. Chow, Terence Hwa
Spatiotemporal chaos (STC) exhibited by the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (KS) equation is investigated analytically and numerically. An effective stochastic equation belonging to the KPZ u…